The 19th CPAN Day and the 1st

Yesterday (August 16th 2014) we celebrated the anniversary
of the first upload to CPAN
by Andreas König (ANDK)
(as he worked on what became PAUSE).
It was the 19th anniversary, but the first that we've marked in this way.

In one day, 107 people uploaded 775 releases, 41 of which were the first
uploads of new distributions, and 10 of which were the first upload
by new CPAN contributors. The first two numbers were outright records,
and the second equalled the previous best. All of those numbers were higher than I expected.

In short, we celebrated CPAN with a wide range of activities,
not just cranking the numbers out.
But to be sure, somepeopledid. Particularly INGY, who did 316 releases!

Has this fired us up? Will we see any continuing effect beyond CPAN Day itself?
Will this push us on to new / more things? Is Kent right in his belief that
"intellectual entropy serves as a source for problem solving and creativity"?
Obviously only time will tell.

And what about next year? My only thought is that we should explicitly make
it not about the total number of releases.
We've done that now, and if we try it ever year, things will just get silly.